Case Nos: CA-2024-002655/002675/002676 - [2025] EWCA Civ 936

Fecha: 23-Jul-2025

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Neutral Citation Number: [2025] EWCA Civ 936

Case Nos: CA-2024-002655/002675/002676

IN THE COURT OF APPEAL (CIVIL DIVISION)

ON APPEAL FROM THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE, BUSINESS AND PROPERTY COURTS OF ENGLAND AND WALES, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LIST (ChD), PATENTS COURT

Mr Justice Mellor

[2024] EWHC 2524 (Pat)

Royal Courts of Justice

Strand, London, WC2A 2LL

Date: 23 July 2025

Before :

LORD JUSTICE ARNOLD

LORD JUSTICE SNOWDEN
and

LORD JUSTICE ZACAROLI

Between :

(1) ACCORD HEALTHCARE LIMITED

(2) ACCORD-UK LIMITED

(3) SANDOZ AG

(4) SANDOZ LIMITED

(5) TEVA PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRIES LIMITED

(6) TEVA UK LIMITED

Claimants/

Appellants

- and -

(1) THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

(2) ASTELLAS PHARMA EUROPE LIMITED

Defendants/

Respondents

Justin Turner KC and Anna Edwards-Stuart KC (instructed by Pinsent Masons LLP) for Accord and Sandoz

Justin Turner KC and Joe Delaney (instructed by Pinsent Masons LLP) for Teva

Andrew Lykiardopoulos KC and Thomas Lunt (instructed by Kirkland & Ellis International LLP) for the Respondents

Hearing date : 2 July 2025

Approved Judgment

This judgment was handed down remotely at 10.30am on 23 July 2025 by circulation to the parties or their representatives by e-mail and by release to the National Archives.

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